February 3, 2012 - Industry News
SEMATECH celebrates 25 years
This year, SEMATECH observes its 25th anniversary and celebrates the pre-competitive collaboration that has been the foundation for many of the ...
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December 2, 2011 - Industry News
Nanotechnology could make battery recycling economically attractive
Batteries are an integral part of modern life – just go ahead and count the batteries that you use yourself in your watches, computers, cell phones, ...
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November 10, 2011 - Industry News
Mini Robots Invade US Nanospace
What is the size of a gambling die, zips around a microscope stage at 2mm/s but can stop on a dime with nanometer precision, then manipulate and ...
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October 31, 2011 - Industry News
Nanoscale copper research leads to golden discovery
Carleton University research into technologies for producing nano-scale copper metal layers for use in the semiconductor industry has had an ...
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May 10, 2010 - Technology News
What do we know about nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology involves manipulating the unimaginably small. A nanometer is about 5 carbon atoms in a row, or the distance your fingernail grows in ...
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March 2, 2010 - Technology News
The future of nanoelectronics - transistors without junctions
The first transistors built in 1947 were over 1 centimeter in size; the smallest transistors today are less than 30 nanometers long – over ...
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February 26, 2010 - Technology News
Borrowing from nature's nanofabrication tricks – biomimetic crystallization nanolithography
Numerous research groups around the world are inspired by the biomineralization processes found in nature – the process by which ...
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February 19, 2010 - Industry News
Partnership to develop the world's smallest pixel micromirror array
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Silicon Quest, ...
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February 6, 2010 - Industry News
IME and vendors join forces in 3-dimensional through-silicon via consortium
The Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore (IME) announced its collaborative partnership with Singapore’s semiconductor industry ...
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December 8, 2009 - Technology News
Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing
Most people know what a gyroscope is and probably played with one as a child. Get the centre ring revolving at high speed using a length of ...
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December 3, 2009 - Technology News
Graphene nanotechnology for tomorrow's nanoelectronic circuits
The success of the computer and communications industry is mainly due to the possibility of a large volume and low cost production output ...
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November 17, 2009 - Technology News
Synopsys to establish a Center of Excellence for Nanoelectronic Design
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing and KACST, the King Abdulaziz ...
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November 16, 2009 - Technology News
Nanotech researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene
Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semi-conducting -- and notoriously difficult and ...
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November 3, 2009 - Technology News
Molecular machines: from electronics to biology
In today's addition to our Application Note series we are looking at the future of electronics and the implications for research instrumentation ...
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November 3, 2009 - Technology News
Novel method for manufacturing nanowires
Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research – nanowires. The discovery ...
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October 19, 2009 - Technology News
Breakthrough in power-efficient driving of OLED-displays
Chihao Xu, professor for microelectronics at Saarland-University, has achieved a breakthrough in power-efficient driving of OLED-displays. ...
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October 12, 2009 - Technology News
New release of free quantum effect simulator
A new version of 1dhetero, a tool able to simulate new technologically relevant III-V semiconductor materials at atomistic level, has been ...
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September 16, 2009 - Technology News
Singapore launches 3-dimensional Through-Silicon Via consortium to boost next generation wafer manufacturing capability
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) announced the launch of a 3D Through Silicon Via consortium to boost next generation 300mm wafer ...
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September 9, 2009 - Technology News
How to make cheap nanostructures of a luminescent conjugated polymer with micron-sized tools
Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) and University College London (UCL) have fabricated sub-30 nm luminescent features of ...
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September 9, 2009 - Technology News
Singapore launches 3-dimensional Through-Silicon Via consortium to boost next generation wafer manufacturing capability
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, announced the launch of a ...
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August 31, 2009 - Technology News
What is what in the nanoworld: A handbook on nanotechnology
The second, completely revised and enlarged edition of What is What in the Nanoworld summarizes the terms and definitions, most important ...
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August 21, 2009 - Technology News
Ten things you should know about nanotechnology
Sometimes we get bombarded with emails from people who are new to the field about certain aspects of nanotechnology – can it cure cancer? ...
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August 13, 2009 - Technology News
The convergence of nanotechnology and conventional microelectronics
The ProMiNaS Workshop on The Convergence of Conventional Microelectronics and Nanotechnology will be held in Grenoble, France, from Sept. 15 to ...
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August 5, 2009 - Industry News
MultiProbe™ Forms Alliance with European Microelectronics and High-Tech Equipment Company
MultiProbe™ announces the addition of Digit Concept, Microelectronics & High-Tech Equipment Company, to their worldwide network of ...
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July 15, 2009 - Technology News
Graphene transistors can work without much noise
Probably the hottest new material system being researched at the moment, graphene consists of just a single atomic layer of carbon atoms bound ...
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